Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors
Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations…
Read MoreImagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations…
Read MoreSo my article from last week on the supposedly emerging religious left has attracted some…
Read MoreThe culture wars are over, according to Barton Swaim, a former speechwriter for former South Carolina…
Read MoreWhenever you think about the principled Southern Baptist leaders opposing the ascension of America’s Problem…
Read MoreMoving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion
Read MoreFollowing last week’s botched execution in Oklahoma, religious leaders began to weigh in on the moral quality…
Read MoreThe day after it was announced that Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor, founder of the Passion movement and campaigner against human trafficking, had been chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, an old sermon of his surfaced. OK, it didn’t…
Read MoreFor leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, if heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie—with low taxes, fewer regulations, a decreased state involvement in public welfare and institutions, denial of coverage for women’s health concerns, and bitter attacks on the Obama administration launched from every available platform—then they don’t want to go. And even the city slickers running Mitt Romney’s campaigns and the rowdy friends at Ron Paul’s rallies should be able to appreciate that.
Read More“Christianity is not supposed to make you secure. Christianity is supposed to give you the courage to walk into an insecure world knowing that you’re not alone and to embrace the radical insecurity. If you’ve got to spend your time proving that you’re better than someone else—males are better than females, whites are better than blacks, heterosexuals are better than homosexuals—you’re always building yourself up by pushing somebody else down. But, you shouldn’t need to build yourself up unless you’re radically insecure. Religion feeds into that radical insecurity with triumphalism—ours is the only religious route you can take to get to God. That’s a really strange idea.”
Read MoreThis year has marked, I believe, the beginning of the end of the war between science and religion. Creationism cannot last. The New Atheists are now old (or departed). And between these camps the middle ground continues to expand. Indeed, many folks have been hard at it, doing a new kind of peace work. Some have done it intentionally, some have not. Outliers, both atheist and religious hardliners, continue to wage battle but they look increasingly irrelevant.
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